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StudioCanal
Here is a list of various studio and financier deals as of January 2024.
Between November 1st and November 30th, we tracked a total of 17 new feature specs on the market. Though it’s not the lowest volume of content in a single month this year, it marks the lowest since August 2022.
StudioCanal & The Picture Company picked up HONEY TRAPPED by April Wolfe. A cabal of assassins arrive in Las Vegas and fight their way up every floor of a busy….
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Studiocanal & The Picture Company acquired the spec ROLE PLAY by Seth Owen. A married couple’s life is turned upside down.
A journalist discovers a letter from 1960 and becomes obsessed with the story surrounding it.
While vacationing in Paris, an American woman must pretend to be someone else in order to survive after being a victim of mistaken identity.
Written by Steven Knight (Locke), the film follows a reporter (Gyllenhaal) who travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend (Cumberbatch), only to get roped into a plot to fake his friend’s death.
Chronicles the story of a 40-year-old man who ages slowly due to a rare condition and has lived for four centuries.
An upright snowplow driver is awarded a Citizen of the Year prize by his glitzy Colorado ski town, whose life is turned upside down when his son is murdered by a powerful local drug kingpin.
The thrilling spec Canary Black from writer Matthew Kennedy is moving into several new territories to start development on the project. It has swiftly captured the attention of numerous producers, now interested in becoming attached.
Logline: After her husband is kidnapped in Prague, an elite CIA agent is forced to commit treason in order to pay the ransom.
In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.
Updated 09.02.16: Mark Townend’s high-concept sci-fi action thriller, pitched as Looper meets Safe House, continues to burn up the market ahead of the holiday weekend, with Screen Gems, Legendary Pictures, and AG Capital being the latest to take a closer look at what has become one of the summer’s hottest specs.
Logline: In the near future where global video surveillance has rendered the witness protection program obsolete, time travel is used to hide high profile witnesses.
Paradigm is on a roll this summer as they hit the town with their latest prospect Glass from Calvin Starnes. As the piping hot spec has made its way into a dozen territories, some A-list talent is already circling what could become the summer’s next great bidding war.
Kept under wraps.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat
A group of thieves plan to rob the island of an El Chapo-type in a short window of time before a huge storm hits.
The Oscar-nominated actor will take an animated turn in Nick Frost’s latest set during the dawn of time.
Set during the time when dinosaurs and mammoths roamed the earth, the story centers on a caveman who unites with his tribe to fight powerful enemy and at the same time, he just happens to invent football.
Jaume Collet-Serra has signed on to helm The Commuter. Liam Neeson is attached to star. The two previously worked together on Non-Stop and Run All Night.
Oscar nominated director Lee Daniels is set to direct The Apollo Theater Film Project, an authorized history of New York’s famed Apollo Theater. The film is being produced by White Horse Pictures.
The film will tell the story of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, one of the most famous theaters in the world and a driving force in shaping America’s music and cultural landscape.
Follows a jock character who gets separated from his backpacking friends and winds up at the New Age festival by accident.
Benedict Cumberbatch has signed on to star in the World War II drama The War Machine from Storyscape Entertainment with StudioCanal financing.
Justin Kurzel is making plans with StudioCanal to adapt Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark’s book The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel. Anthony McCarten is adapting the book.
Based on the book recounts in terrifying detail the terrorist attack in 2008 on the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India by a group of heavily armed Pakistani militants.
While details on the plot are still being kept under wraps, sources say that the movie will offer clues to the origins of the world’s greatest secret agent–an agent so secret that his codename has a codename–and who just so happens to be a mouse living underneath MI6 headquarters.
